Comments | teragramrk: seeking advice from cat owners...

teragramrk

seeking advice from cat owners...

Jan 13, 2009 21:51

Ok, as most of you know I'm a first-time cat owner with 2 cats. Technically they're still kittens, but at almost 9 months old, they're not very kitten-like anymore. Addie is pretty good almost all of the time, and listens to me. Nina can be a little hell-kitten a lot of the time...a cute hell-kitten, but a hell-kitten nonetheless. So, I'd like ( Read more... )

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viable_chimera January 14 2009, 14:23:57 UTC

LoL, aw. I don't necessarily have any recommendations, but I can at least share in your woes. Our cats have their own strange behaviors.

1. One of our cats also affectionately bites hard, but it's infrequent. He used to do it a lot more when he was a baby but it's decreased. Maybe yours will grow out of it. The other two don't do it (accept Caleb who might only do it when he's play-battling with your hand).

2. Our cats also will not eat table food, no matter what. It is strange. Caleb will lick out an empty tuna can, and the others will occasionally too but that's it.

3. Can't help you with the refrigerator thing, lol. But our cats have an obsession... with DESTROYING. They love to tear things up (rolls of paper, bags) and one of them, Whiskers, just LOVES to knock things over. Especially cups of liquid, and ones with straws in them. It's really annoying and messy.

Simple advice for a simple problem.... srfitzsimmons January 14 2009, 15:24:17 UTC

Yeah, after having our three cats for more than two years now, I've found various tricks and strategies to keep them relatively well behaved, and they ought to work for any cat.

Cat bites hard "affectionately" - This might seem like a tough one, but the solution is actually quite simple. I've found that when you've got a hell-cat on your hands, you need to put the fear of God into them. When your cat bites you, kick them in the face. Or if they're standing up, kick them in the stomach and launch that feline across the room like you're going for a field goal. If you need to go a little bit more hardball, I find that grabbing the cat by the throat and slamming it against the wall, essentially allowing it to hang by the throat within your grip like you're Darth Vader or something does wonders for your cat's sense of what is allowed and not. If you go for the wall slamming/choke thing though, I recommend pointing a finger at it and screaming "This is what happens when you try to fuck a man in the ass!" It doesn't really matter what you ( ... )

Re: Simple advice for a simple problem.... viable_chimera January 14 2009, 15:30:36 UTC

... If you expected any other sort of answer from Shane, you ... were wrong. :P

Re: Simple advice for a simple problem.... teragramrk January 14 2009, 19:47:59 UTC

Fair enough, Shane, fair enough. Actually they like the cat food just fine, and Addie likes the tuna and chicken tastes. It's the flavors she's not interested in, such as the chicken broth-soaked nylabone.

Leaving her in the fridge overnight would have rather extreme side effect of death seeing as there would be no airflow, and she'd probably suffocate.

As for the rest, you must have the most well-behaved cats ever, with that much fear of G-d in them :-P

All hail the anti-pet whisperer (pet shouter?) pedantic_fool March 20 2009, 15:27:06 UTC

I hope you get a TV show. I will buy a TV and sign up for cable just so I can get whatever channel you're on. Probably not Animal Planet.

You, sir, are my kind of cat owner.